Time to machine some aluminum clamps for a nice vise.
To be used on the palet of my Intelys C3000.
First time I am using 3D printing to check the part before wasting material and time with CNC milling: very useful, let me fix some design flaws before machining!
The retractable brush for my vacuum cleaner is broken.
Fixed with an aluminum plate machined on my CNC-6040.
CAD done with ViaCAD, and CAM with BobCAD-CAM.
My first experience with Machinekit: the retrofit of an old Intelys C3000 machining center! Three months of work with many new things to learn:
Many thanks to the Machinekit and LinuxCNC community for helping me on some tricky configuration issues.
The customized Machineface GUI is available from https://github.com/f1oat/
Here is an old project now almost finished: a stepper motor based laser sweeping mechanism to be used with DAVID-Laserscanner. The design has been done with ViaCAD 2D/3D. CNC G-Code file generated with CamBam.
The stepper motor is used with a planetary gear box of 1:100 ratio. This gives a resolution of 0.018°.
The electronics is based on:
The different parts before machining the box:
The mechanical elements has been machined with a CNC-6040 router.
Next step is the machining of the Laser support axis.
Full project description here: http://blog.f1oat.org/david-laserscanner-laser-sweeping-mechanism/
The machine is now cutting fast, I can start the mass production !
Some cleaning to be done …
After lot of tuning of my CNC mini-mill, a first real project: the remake of a broken part from a radio mast.
Step #1: an image of the broken part is done with a scanner. Then, the object is reconstructed within TurboCad V12 with a red spline.
Step #2: the toolpath is computed with Cambam CAM software
Step #3: machining on my homebrew CNC mini-mill
Step 4: the remade part with POM-C material
